A Tuscaloosa County man has been sentenced to serve a 27-month prison term for fraud.

James Timothy Montgomery pleaded guilty to federal securities and mail fraud charges in August. He was accused of taking around $200,000 from five victims who thought they were investing in a medical software company that did not actually exist.

“Simply put, he sought to parlay their good faith and trust in him into a financial windfall for himself,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Borton wrote in a sentencing memorandum entered in the court file.

The fraud occurred in 2006 and 2007, he wrote, while Montgomery was on supervised probation for a previous bank fraud charge and a theft conviction from Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court.

Senior U.S. District Judge Inge Johnson sentenced Montgomery to serve two years and there months in federal prison. He was ordered to pay $235,000 in restitution to the victims. The judge ordered Montgomery to report to prison on May 28.